POLICE PURSUE THIEVES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

POLICE PURSUE THIEVES

RACE BETWEEN MOTOR-CARS

Jewel thieves and city police had an exciting race at high speed through tho streets of London in tho early hours of the morning recently. In Kimberley House, Holhorn-Viaduct — next door to Holbora Station —several wholesale diamond merchants and jewellers have offices or store-rooms, and one night thieves had broken in and stolen a large quantity of gold and silver articles from one firm. The police were therofore " keeping an eye on " Kimberley House. In tho early hours of the day of the chase the poiice noticed a car standing outside the front door, and as they approached it a man walked out, jumped into the car, and was driven off. The police commandeered tho first car they could find and raced after the other car, in which, it 13 believed, there were three or. four men.

The man at the wheel of the car knew nil there is to know about getting through London—and all there is to know about " stepping on the gas "; but at Islington the car in which the police were riding caught np the furgitives. One man in the car was captured, but the other men managed to get away. It i? stated that jewellery valued at about £BOO is missing from one firm's offices in Kimberley House, and that some jewellery wm found in the car which was chased^